About author


  Pawel Kowal was born on July 4th, 1971 in Poland/Cracow, master's degree in automation engineering, graduate at the AGH University of Science and Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow - painting department. Painting and drawing accompanied him from his early youth. Initially, these were works with a pen or charcoal. Favorite topics of that period were architecture, industrial and railway infrastructure, which are close to the author's interests. The next stage is the development towards pencil and pastel techniques. Then painting workshops and the development of this difficult art with Mrs. Ewa Gadnicka-Włodarczyk, still remembered by the author as "The first initiator of progress". At the Academy of Fine Arts, under the supervision of outstanding lecturers: prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk, prof. Zbigniew Bajka, Ph.D. Witold Stelmachniewicz, Ph.D. Michał Zawada, Dr. Kamil Kuzko and Dr. Grzegorz Wnęk, the author developed his technique, slowly delving into the techniques of oil painting, but also drawing and wall painting (murals) and multimedia techniques (photography, sculpture, film). The Academy developed his way of perceiving art, demolished all barriers of artistic correctness, freedom of expression and launched an avalanche of contact with his own inner emotional experiences. Above all, it provided motivation to act, develop and work. This path led him to many new activities, which resulted in many different thematic attempts to personalize his discoveries in art. The current topic of his works are reflections on everyday life compiled into serious, often current social topics. These include: technology, "ecology", social sociology, philosophy and theology